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Interventionism, Not Capitalism, Has Caused Our Economic Problems

by Richard M. Ebeling April 8, 2024

In a Pew Foundation opinion survey report in September of 2022, it was found that only 46 percent of Democrats had a “positive” view of capitalism, down from 55 percent in 2019. On the other hand, 74 percent of Republicans said they were positive on capitalism, which was a decrease from 78 percent in 2019. At the same time, ...

Legalize Nitazenes

by Laurence M. Vance April 3, 2024

I never even heard of nitazenes until last month. They are a type of synthetic opioids called isotonitazenes, or ISOs, that have been detected in illegal street drugs. According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), ISOs are “being mixed into and marketed as other drugs to make drugs more potent and cheaper to produce.” Ten nitazenes, also called benzimidazole-opioids, ...

When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

by John W. Whitehead April 2, 2024

“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth.”— Martin Luther King Jr. When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the ...

Which Way Forward for America?

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2024

With the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the American people brought into existence the most unusual way of life in history, one that led to the greatest economic miracle that mankind has ever seen. Americans not only discovered the solution to poverty but also experienced the greatest outburst of charity in history. Ironically, when the delegates met at the Constitutional ...

The World Economic Forum Is Still Conspiring Against Your Freedom

by James Bovard April 1, 2024

Last January, humanity’s elite gathered again in Davos, Switzerland, to plan out the rest of our lives. World Economic Forum (WEF) honchos are morally superior because they are devoted to destroying your freedom to save the Earth, or at least to safeguard plant habitat. Sixty heads of government from around the world attended, as did endless Lear Jet–loads of multilateral ...

America Needs a Great Reset

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2024

For several years now, and especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 “pandemic” fiasco, we have been told that the world needs a “great reset.” World Economic Forum (WEF) executive chairman Klaus Schwab famously said in June of 2020: “The COVID- 19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit any more for the 21st century. ...

Ludwig von Mises and the Austrian Theory of Money, Banking, and the Business Cycle, Part 2

by Richard M. Ebeling April 1, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 When the second German-language edition of Ludwig von Mises’s The Theory of Money and Credit appeared 100 years ago, in 1924, it was less than a year since the great German and Austrian inflations had come to an end in 1923. (See my article “The Great German and Austrian Inflations, ...

The Language of Force

by John W. Whitehead March 27, 2024

“If the state could use laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of our First Amendment liberties, and little would separate us from the tyrannies of the past or the malignant fiefdoms of our own age. The freedom to speak without risking arrest is ...

Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls

by John W. Whitehead March 22, 2024

“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries.”—Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism Day by day, tyranny is rising as freedom falls. The U.S. military is being used ...

The Social Security and Medicare Scams

by Laurence M. Vance March 19, 2024

Charlotte Cowles is a financial advice columnist for The Cut, “a New York Magazine site dedicated to women’s lives and interests, including politics, work, money, relationships, style, and parenting.” She recently lost $50,000 when she fell for a scam, put that amount in cash in a shoe box, and handed it over to ...

The Great Election Fraud

by John W. Whitehead March 15, 2024

“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”—Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was right to keep President Trump’s name on the ballot. The high court’s decree that the power to remove a federal candidate from the ballot under the Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban” rests ...

When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors

by John W. Whitehead March 8, 2024

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. We must, therefore, be on ...